Links to All Manufactured Crisis Articles in the Series

Below are links to versions of all Cloward-Piven Manufactured Crisis articles. Demand for them has exploded. Note: The one we discussed in the WorldView radio interview is Crisis II.

Beneath these is another link to the American Daughter website where the webmaster has been kind enough to post the first three articles in printable Microsoft Word format. When you get to the American Daughter website, scroll down to the box near the bottom of the page.

The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part I: Manufactured Crisis

The Cloward-Piven Strategy Part, II: Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis.

The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part III: Conspiracy of the Lemmings.

Link to printable documents on the American Daughter website.

The Cloward Piven Strategy, Part IV: Manufactured Healthcare Crisis

The Cloward Piven Strategy, Part V: ACORN on the Ropes

The Cloward Piven Strategy, Part VI: Cloward Piven Government

Listen to the October, 2009 lecture on Cloward/Piven to Grassroots America We the People of Tyler, TX.
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Listen to the Brannon Howse interviews on the Cloward-Piven Strategy: here and here.

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Interview with Brannon Howse on Obama's Manufactured Crisis

This interview regarding Barack Obama and the mounting manufactured crisis was broadcast first last night. It has had record hits. Please listen and pass it on:

http://www.worldviewradio.com/episode.php/episodeid-10958/Brannon-Howse/Brannon-Howse

1973 NYC Bomb Plot Terrorist Linked to Iraq – Set Free; Part I

March 4, 2009 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced today that Khalid Al-Jawary, a dangerous Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorist convicted of a 1973 New York City bomb plot and implicated in multiple terrorist attacks spanning two decades, was deported to Sudan yesterday. He had served only half of his thirty year sentence. Recently declassified information additionally reveals that Al-Jawary got help from New York’s Iraqi diplomatic mission in communicating with his PLO masters.

In March of 1973, Al-Jawary and possible accomplices planted three powerful car bombs: two along 5th Avenue near Israeli owned banks, and one at Kennedy Airport. Timed to explode upon the arrival in New York of then Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, the bombs fortunately never detonated. Al-Jawary then fled the United States and remained on the run until 1991 when he was nabbed in Italy and turned over to the FBI. While Al-Jawary always maintained his innocence, 60 of his fingerprints were lifted from the bombs and related evidence.

In addition to the 1973 bomb plot, Al-Jawary was suspected in a worldwide mail bombing campaign in the 1970s and the midair bombing of a TWA airliner in 1974 which killed all 88 on board, including 17 Americans. He was arrested and held for a time in Germany in 1979 for another bombing attempt. His bomb-making signature – a certain kind of electronic timing device – also linked him to other fatal bombings throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

"He's a very dangerous man," said Mike Finnegan, the former FBI counterterrorism agent who captured Al-Jawary. "A very bad guy."

At Al-Jawary’s April 16, 1993, sentencing, Judge Jack Weinstein stated that his bombs could have: "killed and maimed hundreds, caused large fires and terrorized thousands of people,” adding that “It is highly likely that were this defendant released he would continue his dangerous terrorist activities.”

Nonetheless, on February 19th, Al-Jawary was released from the Bureau of Prison’s Supermax facility in Florence, Colorado, and turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation.

How did this happen?

According to the Bureau of Prisons, because Al-Jawary’s conviction stemmed from a 1973 incident, he was sentenced under “old law.” Under old law, any federal prisoner was eligible for “good time” equal to 10 days per month served as long as he kept his nose clean. He was also eligible for additional “good time” based on work performance while incarcerated. When added to “time served” i.e. the two years he was incarcerated before sentencing, this reduced Al-Jawary’s time by a total of 5,168 days (fourteen years and two months).

So Khalid Al-Jawary, a career terrorist who will very likely return right back to his deadly trade, goes free at age 63 after serving only 15 years and ten months of his thirty year sentence. Had he been forced to serve out his full sentence, he might have died in prison, or failing that, would have at least been slowed down by age. And he’s deported to Sudan, of all places. Why Sudan?

A number of news sources have claimed that the FBI was pursuing new charges against Al-Jawary, in hopes of derailing his deportation. On February 19, for example, NPR’s Dina Temple-Raston reported:

For now, the U.S. is able to buy time. They are remanding Al-Jawary to immigration officials while the FBI looks at whether it can bring new charges against him. [FBI case agent Craig] McLaughlin and his team are reviewing the previous investigation and are actively searching for new leads that might link Al-Jawary to other attacks. While officials work out the details of Al-Jawary, the former Black September member will remain in custody. U.S. authorities are in no rush to release him.

Jim Margolin, spokesman for FBI’s New York field office would not confirm or deny that the FBI had pending charges but said: “The file isn’t closed and wasn’t when [Al-Jawary] was sentenced.” He added that the FBI has expressed a “continuing investigative interest” in Al-Jawary.

Pursuing this case further theoretically does not depend on Al-Jawary remaining here. The FBI pursued him around the world for eighteen years before catching him in 1991. But even then they got lucky. Having him safely behind bars in the U.S. while new charges were sought would sure have made life easier for the FBI – not to mention his potential future victims.

The ICE announcement identifies Al-Jawary as “a native of the Palestinian Territories” who has “dual citizenship with Iraq and Jordan.” While ICE claims that deportation to countries other than the deportee’s home country is not uncommon, the choice of Sudan is interesting. With a radical Islamic government conducting genocidal wars against its own non-Muslim peoples, and its long-time support for terrorist organizations, Sudan can only be described as “Terrorism Central.” I suspect we will be hearing from Al-Jawary again.

But whatever Al-Jawary does from now on, his release underscores the absurdity of treating acts of terrorism as law enforcement matters, subject to the vagaries and inadequacies of the U.S. court system in dealing with what are in fact acts of war.

Changes in the law supposedly make this kind of scenario less likely for terrorists prosecuted in the U.S. today. However, laws are always subject to change. Politicians can also issue pardons, as former President Bill Clinton did for 16 Puerto Rican terrorists, or turn the criminal justice system on its head, as retiring Illinois Governor George Ryan did by commuting death sentences for 171 death row prisoners in 2003.

Furthermore, treating terrorism as a criminal matter makes it less likely the real culprits are caught. Al-Jawary was a skilled bomb maker, but he was expendable. The true perpetrators were top level PLO planners, who carried on, only temporarily inconvenienced – if at all – by the loss of one “technician.”

Our criminal justice system of necessity focuses on people like Al-Jawary. Prosecutors have an incentive to “win” cases. This means getting ironclad evidence against those apprehended or those thought to have actually committed the crime. In terrorist investigations those who actually commit the crimes are usually the lowest level actors and thus least relevant in bringing down the organization that orchestrated the attack. At the same time they are the most likely to be caught and the easiest to prosecute. Indeed, they are often considered "throwaways", deliberately left to be caught while the big fish swim away.

Those behind the plot, the real “masterminds,” plan it to minimize their risk of capture. Thus, even with Al-Jawary behind bars, the PLO leadership remained free to plot and execute murderous plans. And plan and execute they did.

Finally, terrorism cases tried in court may require divulging military secrets to the defense. This not only threatens our national security, but can prove fatal to undercover operatives working on our behalf.

Regardless, the Obama administration has made it crystal clear they will treat acts of terrorism in just this fashion, undermining our ability to take the fight to the enemy, while guaranteeing that we expend excessive law enforcement resources chasing targets of limited value. And the day may yet come when we see the most dangerous al Qaeda terrorists currently residing at GITMO seek and receive early release for “good behavior.”

Part II will discuss Iraq’s involvement in the 1973 bombing.

Soldier of Fortune Magazine Exposes Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Corruption in Iraq

By Robert K. Brown
Editor and Publisher
Soldier of Fortune Magazine

This editorial was first published in the April 2009 edition of Soldier of Fortune Magazine. It is reprinted here with permission.


NEED A DEFINITION FOR OBAMA’S CALL FOR “RESPONSIBILITY”

Amid the orderly transfer of power, our new Chief Executive has issued a call for responsibility. As is the case with most of his public statements, his meaning is not clear. However, if he means holding government officials accountable for their actions, a novel and great idea, it is something that we can all embrace. It is particularly true of those officials within agencies with a long and well documented history of abuses of entrusted powers. Somehow, ATFE comes to mind as the poster boy for irresponsibility and unaccountability.

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Justice recently (December 2008) reported on “An Investigation of Overtime Payments to FBI and Other Department of Justice Employees Deployed to Iraq” during the period 2003 through 2008. The “other” employees in the title of the report included ATFE Special Agents as well as DEA Special Agents and Deputy U.S. Marshals.

ATFE Special Agents were deployed in Iraq on 90-day TDY assignments between 2003 and 2008. During that time, they were paid $4,175,731.00 in unauthorized and unlawful overtime pay. They filed fraudulent claims for the overtime and ATFE senior officials did nothing to monitor the claims or review them for conformity with federal law and regulations. In other words, the ATFE Special Agents, law enforcement officers who are sworn to faithfully execute the laws of the United States, filed false time and attendance reports claiming pay for overtime which was not worked and for which payment was not authorized under federal law.

ATFE senior officials are paid to ensure that compensation for work performed by ATFE employees conforms with federal law. Throughout the five-year period, nothing was done to monitor the claims for overtime pay and no internal reviews were undertaken. If nothing else, the OIG Report gives rise to the question, whether ATFE, a large federal organization with law enforcement powers, can be held accountable to the people for waste, fraud and abuse. If so, where do we start? The OIG Report is a good starting place.

LET’S DEFINE GOVERNMENT WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE

The most difficult part of any attempt to correct government waste, fraud and abuse is in identifying the acts and the actors. It usually comes to light from an insider or a victim. The OIG investigation originated from inside information. An FBI employee, who asked to remain anonymous, disclosed that FBI agents were paid for working 16 hours per day, 7 days per week while they were stationed in Iraq, irrespective of the number of hours actually worked. The OIG investigation expanded when it became known that ATFE Special Agents working in Iraq uniformly claimed pay for 15.5 hours per day, 7 days per week. The time claimed as “work” included such activities as commuting to and from work, exercise, standby time and such activities as recreation and socializing.

The OIG Report concluded that few, if any, employees worked 15.5 or 16 hours a day every day for 90 days straight. Moreover, even if they did work such hours, employees in the Special Agent classification series are not legally authorized overtime pay because all Special Agents must qualify for and are paid a “premium” for administratively uncontrollable work in excess of 8 hours per day. Every Special Agent knows the rules for pay from his first day on the job and also knows that payment of overtime is prohibited under federal law unless scheduled in advance of the work week; that it can only be scheduled after a methodical analyses by the approving official confirming that compensation for overtime is necessary; and then, overtime pay can be claimed only if the employee actually works the hours scheduled.

ATFE Special Agents were deployed in Iraq for 90-day assignments (13 weeks) and in the period covered by the OIG audit there were 145 such deployments. ATFE’s own estimate to OIG is that it paid $4,175,731.00 in overtime to Special Agents in Iraq between 2003 and July 2008. Special Agents fall within a special classification series for all purposes. They differ from government bureaucrats in that they are held to much higher moral standards. They are required to be exposed to danger in the course of performing their duties. They are caused to work long hours in the investigation of crimes and due to the nature of the work, the hours of work are incapable of being administratively controllable.

Special Agents also receive pay and benefits which are extraordinarily generous. The average base salary for a Special Agent, such as those who were deployed to Iraq, is $108,576.00. That figure is derived from the fact that the average agent deployed was a Step 5 of Grade 13 in the Civil Service pay scale, the base pay for which is $94,025.00. To that is added a premium pay of 25 percent of a Grade 11, or $14,551.00, for which all agents must qualify. In addition to the $108.576.00 base salary, while on assignment in Iraq each ATFE Special Agent was eligible for and received the following extra compensations authorized by federal law:

1. A night differential of 10 percent for hours worked between 6:00 pm and 6:00 am (5 U.S.C. 5545 (a); 5 C.F.R. 550.121);

2. A Sunday differential (25 percent for up to 8 hours of non-overtime work on Sundays (5 U.S.C. 5546(a); 5 C.F.R. 550.171);

3. A post differential of up to 25 percent extra for the first 40 hours per week in locations that differ substantially from conditions in the continental United States (5 U.S.C. 5926) (this percentage increased in Iraq from 25 percent to 35 percent in 2006);

4. A danger pay of 25 percent extra for the first 40 hours per week for work on the basis of wartime conditions (5 U.S.C. 5928);

5. And holiday pay, twice the employee’s salary for up to 8 hours of work on holidays (5 U.S.C 5546(b); 5 C.F.R. 550.103; 5 C.F.R. 550.131(a).

The annual salary of Special Agents does not include benefits provided, which include:
1. 13 days annual leave (26 days for those with 15 years of service);

2. 13 days of sick leave;

3. 10 paid holidays;

4. Retirement at age 50 with 20 years of service (It is worth noting that premium pay is included in calculating retirement benefits);

5. Health insurance;

6. Life insurance.

Remarkable for its absence from the OIG Report is any recommendation for accountability. It does not recommend any attempt to recoup excess payments for overtime which was unlawful. It does not recommend any sanctions against individuals for filing false time and attendance reports or sanctions for mismanaging the administration of federal laws and regulations regarding compensation of federal employees.

With this as prologue, there is a starting point. Who will be looking out for those gun owners whose rights have been abused or are ripe for abuse; for small businesses such as Red’s Trading Post and other law abiding individuals whose businesses will be destroyed; for those who will face criminal prosecution for inadvertent, technical mistakes on federal forms?

HERE’S A DEFINITION OF “RESPONSIBILITY”

Below are some suggestions to give accountability a start. Hold ATFE accountable for the mismanagement of your tax money as reported in the OIG Report:

1. The ATFE budget for the next budget cycle should be reduced by $4,175,731.00, the amount of the fraud on taxpayer funds detailed in the OIG Report;

2. The ATFE Special Agents who made false claims on official time and attendance reports for personal benefit should be appropriately sanctioned and made to reimburse the Government. At a minimum, an official letter should be placed in their personnel files noting the number of false statements made in official reports. Those gun owners who will be charged criminally and those FFL holders who will face license revocations are entitled to know that their accusers have a record of falsifying official reports. This will contribute to fair trials for defendants in future cases in which such agents will be called to testify;

3. Those officials within ATFE responsible for establishing policy and procedures relating to the administration of federal law and regulations of ATFE pay should be identified. Their official performance reviews for the years 2003 through 2008 should be reviewed and amended if their evaluations were satisfactory or above. Sanctions, such as letters of reprimand appropriate to fit the unsatisfactory performance, should be made a part of their official personnel file. It should be noted that Acting Director Michael J. Sullivan, the ultimate official during the years 2007 and 2008, will not be held accountable because he has announced his resignation effective 20 January, 2009.